Wishing You Luck

Can you believe March is here already? Yikes!

On the plus side, the March challenge over at Simply Clean & Simple to make a CAS card with an optional additional theme of 'Green' did spark an idea ... 

Plenty of ink smooshing to keep me happy here, lol, for both the background and die-cut lettering, which is three layers for depth. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Bitty Buzzwords: Seasons (Honey Bee Stamps)
• card - kraft, watercolour
• dies - Bold Text 2, Tailored (Tim Holtz), Curio: Spring findings (The Greetery), stitched rectangle (Paper Rose)
• distress oxide inks - mowed lawn, rustic wilderness, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon
• other - Big Shot, MISTI, crackling campfire archival ink, water spritzer, heat tool, blending brushes, Dimensionals, craft foam, clear sequins, mini glue dots

Hope you get some crafting in your day! Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept Challenge #190

Welcome to another inspiration challenge with The Card Concept. Here's our mood board for challenge #190:

Inspiration for my mixed media card came from the luck theme and colour palette.

Materials used:

• stamps - Tiny Text (Tim Holtz)
• card - basic black, basic white, garden green (all SU), black and white tartans (Paper Rose), grey houndstooth (Nitwit Collections)
• dies - Tailored (Tim Holtz), Playful Alphabet (SU)
• other - sponge daubers, MISTI, white embossing powder, heat tool, Dimensionals, craft foam, garden green and basic grey inks (SU), Versamark, Big Shot

Do head over to the Card Concept blog to see what my fellow design team members have created to inspire you, and of course we'd love to see your own card in our gallery.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept Challenge - Wearing of the Green

March already! Where is the time going???

This week for challenge #170 at The Card Concept, our theme is Wearing of the Green.

I went with a St Patrick's Day/good luck theme for my clean and layered fancy fold card. Somewhere, deep in the lush green heart of Ireland, there are leprechaun chicks celebrating the best way they know how, lol.

The rainbow was treated with some Wink of Stella for subtle shimmer. Unfortunately the 'indigo' portion looks very dark (almost black) in the photo but I can assure you it's blue/purple. Such is life!

Materials used:

• stamps - Irish Chicks (Stamping Bella)
• card - watercolour
• distress inks - candied apple, carved pumpkin, mustard seed, mowed lawn, salty ocean, wilted violet, shabby shutters, tumbled glass, rustic wilderness, black soot
• dies - Card Stacks Base (Concord & 9th), Cascading Rainbow (MFT), Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper (Tim Holtz)
• other - blending brushes, Dimensionals, slimline drifts & hills stencil, concord crush dye ink (SU), Big Shot Switch, clear Wink of Stella, Sidekick

We would love for you to take part in our challenge. Simply choose any aspect/s of our inspiration pic for your card, tell us what it was/they were, as well as which design style you've chosen, and upload it into our gallery. 

May be your days be many and your troubles be few. Thanks for calling in. 

Cheers

Kerry

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig

One of DD16's school besties is Irish and when I saw a St Patrick's Day card made by Mary Fish, I simply could not resist case-ing it to make for her - it was just tooooooooo cute not to!

So here's my take on Mary's card:

Materials used:

• stamps - Teeny Tiny Sentiments
• card - whisper white, garden green, basic black, gold (non SU), garden green patterned paper
• other - Big Shot, moustache die, bow builder punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, word window punch, banner framelits, Dimensionals

I've always felt an affinity with Ireland, though I'm not sure why; my ancestral connection with the country is tenuous, to say the least. But I've seen a fair bit of Ireland and loved it - and, hey! they've got a whole county named after me (County Kerry), so that's gotta be a good thing!!!!! LOL

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig (Happy St Patrick's Day)! "Tanks" for stopping by!

Cheers
Kez